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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

William James

Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural

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